Meditation - Good for Believers and Non-Believers

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This article is from the "Concepts of Meditation" section of our web
site, Meditation Station http:://www.meditationsociety.com
It is being posted in response to an email asking if meditation is OK
for those who believe in God. The writer's fundamentalist religion
considers meditation as a "sin". Here's our take.....

Meditation - Good for Believers and Non-Believers

Dozens of times a day, athiests pray to god and devout believers in
God deny His existence. Everyone, including athiests, subconsciously
and consciously say things like "I hope this will happen" or "I hope
that won't occur." This magical thinking is a form of prayer and all
prayer implies a belief in a higher power who is able to receive the
prayer and grant its request. Similarly, when anyone, even a person
who professes belief in a God, expresses a belief that evil will
overcome good or even that there is something "wrong" in their life,
they have in fact denied their God's omnipotence, omniscience,
omnipresence, etc.
Taking these odd truths as further demonstration that the average
person is very much in need of alot of inner help that only
meditation brings, it is the position of the Meditation Society of
America that a practicioner need not believe in God to gain benefits
from meditation. In fact, by meditating, an athiest could become
aware of their hypocritical prayers and a believer could see the
contradictory nature of their verbalizations of doubts about God.

There are many meditation techniques, such as the "Prayer Meditation"
(#82), that have been handed down through the centuries specifically
to unite the meditator with his God, to teach him how to serve Him or
Her better, or some such goal that would be inapplicable to an
athiestic practicioner. So, although some of the techniques we will
be sharing may mention God, it is the position of the Meditation
Society of America to neither encourage or discourage anyone, of any
belief or religious background from using or agreeing to any of the
methods or concepts we share. We simply want to make them available
and hope they will help. As has been expressed many times, in may
ways, by many wise beings, there are many paths to Peace. We'll be
glad to show them to you and will never imply that any one of them is
the best or only one. As you grow and evolve in consciousness, the
entire universe gains and evolves as well, so we all benefit.
Meditation is the best way to achieve this growth and evolution and
we suggest you try it and hope you find it beneficial.

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